Retailers Make Good Neighbors

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 13, 2006
CONTACT: Joyce Smart, Corporate Communications, 864.286.2867

BI-LO CHARITY CLASSIC TO BENEFIT LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

MAULDIN, SC – The 2006 BI-LO Charity Classic raised over $5.5 million in this year’s 23rd annual golf event, which took place on June 12 in the Upstate of South Carolina. This breaks the tournament’s record of $4.5 million set last year.
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Retailers are Good Neighbors – The Mall at Stonecrest

Trish Elmore, Manager of the Mall at Stonecrest and her staff spent a Friday in September painting, doing carpentry work, cleaning, organizing and remodeling the Decatur Cooperative Ministry, which provides many services to the homeless and at-risk families.
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BI-LO seed money Raises $100,000 for Tsunami Relief

In January Mauldin, South Carolina based BI-LO supermarkets supported Tsunami relief efforts by matching $25,000 in gifts to the American Red Cross International Disaster Relief Fund for their efforts with the disaster. That $25,000 commitment served as the catalyst for raising a total of $100,000.
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On March 15, 2005 the EPA and DOE recognize Sears with Excellence in Appliance Retailing 2005 Award.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) have recognized Sears, Roebuck and Co. (NYSE: S) with the Excellence in Appliance Retailing 2005 award for its outstanding contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through leadership in energy-efficient appliance retailing. Sears' accomplishments will be recognized at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. on March 15, 2005.

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Tree-Hugging Home Depot Shakes Up Industry
By Richard Halicks

When you go through the automatic doors of Home Depot to get your wood chipper, gas blower, pressure washer, nail gun, or fence posts, you're walking straight into the globalized economy.

Faucets made in China, timber cut in Canada, tools fabricated in the United States. Home Depot is an acknowledged innovator that grew from an interesting idea in 1978 to a retailing colossus in 2004. Its cash registers bleep in 1,766 stores, and it employs more than 300,000 people on several continents. But nowhere has it gone against the grain more than in its vital wood-products business.

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Focus on Rich's Macy's

In keeping with the generosity and community commitment of the families that founded these regional department stores, Rich's-Macy's along with its parent company Federated Department Stores, has a long-standing tradition of giving back to the communities they serve. The areas of philanthropic concentration are: United Way, women's health issues, children and education, HIV & AIDS prevention and education.

In 1989 Rich's-Macy's launched an employee led volunteer program Partners In Time which quickly became a model for other companies to follow. Federated is a retail leader in monetary contributions. Giving through the Federated Department Stores Foundation, divisions and individual employees totaled $14.9 million in 2003 and topped $250 million in the last ten years.

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THE HOME DEPOT, U.S. MARINE CORPS AND U.S. ARMY BEGIN MOBILIZATION OF $1 MILLION IN DONATED TOOLS AND MATERIALS TO U.S. MILITARY IN IRAQ

San Diego Store Associates, U.S. Marines and Army Soldiers Work Together to Load, Transport Supplies to Camp Pendleton

Atlanta , June 24, 2004 – The Home Depot ® , the world's largest home improvement retailer, is delivering today on its pledge to donate $1 million in tools and materials to support the U.S. military in Iraq . Nearly 100,000 tools and materials, including shovels, table saws, concrete mixers, safety scaffolding, power generators, light bulbs, jackhammers, and thousands of letters from associates at The Home Depot to troops will be loaded on nine tractor trailers in San Diego this morning to begin an 8,000-mile journey by U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps transportation to U.S. military installations in Iraq.